“If God is all loving, then we must treat the heart as the throne of God.”
“The ego can be found in the heart, which in turn is the mother of all desires.”
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
Vol. II, ch. 2.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 283.
Part I, ch. XXXI.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
Context: A child is tied to our heart-strings, as the spheres are linked to their creator; we cannot think of God except as a mother's heart writ large. It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
“Oh, happy kings,
Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts.”
Perkin Warbeck, Act III, sc. i. (c. 1629-34)
“All dharmas hide inside the mother's heart. To receive is dhamra.”
आमाको दिल
“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts
or does each man's mad desire become his god?”
Dine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt,
Euryale, an sua cuique deus fit dira cupido?
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Lines 184–185 (tr. Fagles)
